
Conlangery #59: Loan Words
Conlangery Podcast
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The Importance of Phonological Adaptation
In situations where you have a prestige foreign language that is constantly injecting new vocabulary into language, you might get more of that. I think it seems likely that kind of thing can happen pretty often. But again, yeah, when they're borrowed, they take on their own meaning. Internet English must mean that very strange vocabulary items are entering languages all over this planet with very peculiar significances.
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